Objectives of the execution phase

These targets had been dominated by the accent put on the technical and scientifically analysis for the implication of the universities in the urban restructuring and regional development. Accordingly to the detailed plan of action, this stage is fallowed by the next stage, both having as purpose to fulfill a rigorous analyse on the mode on which the universities, throw there creative potential, have involved in the process of urban restructuring and regional development.

Therefore, the objectives of this stage have been represented by an ample documentation of the terms and the basic concepts, as well as of the way in which the universities have been involved in this kind of processes. This documentation had been performed through a great analysis of the literature, not only national, but as well as international, that could allow an easy interlinking of the results obtained in the studies regarding the relationship university – city – region.

A second target was to provide an analysis regarding the way in which the Romanian universities have been involved in the urban restructuring and the regional development till nowadays, presenting a typology of this two degrees of connection with the local and regional area. In this stage the deployed activates have pointed out an individual analysis of the two directions: the implication in the urban restructuring and the regional development.

In the same time, there have been made analyses pointing out the territorial differences in the way of their implication, resulting from this point of view, that there is a certain relationship between the structure of the universities and their potential of implication in those two general issues.